If you are wondering whether your site can handle the stress of a traffic spike, there are two ways you can find out. First, you can wait around for Digg, Reddit or a similar site to pick up something on yours and send a slew of people your way, possibly crashing your server and causing [...]
Earlier this year, I discussed the benefits of Google Apps and why everyone should consider using it on their site. Simply put, Google Apps is easy to set up on any server, adds a lot of great benefits to your site and makes it easier than ever to use Gmail’s functionality with your site’s domain. [...]
If you’re going to host your own .com website, you need two things: A hosting account and a domain. Though we’ve already talked at great length about warning signs when buying a hosting account, precious little has been said about how to avoid getting burned when buying a domain. Though domains are usually significantly cheaper [...]
Your site is down. You realize that you need to contact support and you visit your host’s contact page. There, you are faced with a decision: Do you reach for the telephone and give them a call? Or do you send them an email/file a trouble ticket? Most people find talking to a human being [...]
It has happened to nearly every hosting customer at some point. You’re researching a host and visiting their “Why Us” page or some other page with information about the company. There they talk about how they run a “Tier 3″ or “Tier 2″ data center with no explanation about what that means. Though hosting geeks [...]
When it comes to hosting, most customers have an expectation of certain features. They know how many GBs of storage and transfer they have, the various languages that their hosting account can support and how many databases they can create. In short, all of the things they need to power a website. However, hosting has [...]
WordPress is one of, if not the single, most popular applications hosting customers install on their servers. Not only is it an incredibly popular blogging platform, but it is also a well-respected CMS and is used to manage a large number of sites, even those that aren’t blogs. Nearly every major host, especially those who [...]
While it is true that “the cloud” is not a place in the physical world but merely a buzzword for making stuff available for access via the Web, everything that exists in the cloud also exists somewhere in the physical world as well, or, in the case of content delivery networks, in multiple places in [...]
It has long been established that downtime is a fact of life for pretty much any Web host. Even Wikipedia, which operates two datacenters, suffered an extended period of downtime earlier this month. Though a good host will certainly keep downtime to a minimum, you can tell even more about the quality of a host [...]
CPanel is far and away the most common control panel used by Web hosts large and small. this includes companies such as Hostmonster, Bluehost, Site 5 and Midphase just to name a few. CPanel is so common because it is incredibly reliable, secure and easy to use. It’s a control panel that even the greenest [...]